The beginings of a dining room, and yummy apple scones!

Now that Olivia and Jules have moved into their big "studio" room, I now have a dining room!!! The space will also be used as a studio for sewing etc, and with the Mac in there a quiet place to blog, study etc................. I've had fun so far, setting the room up and I look forward to finding some prints etc for the walls............I already have a gorgeous poster from The Romeo And Juliet Ballet we went to in December, just waiting to be hung..............

I used mainly pieces of furniture we already had to decorate, plus a few new things we found, or were given as is the case with the beautiful sideboard, which was actually given to us by our lovely gyrocker Hanns(who has collected a lot of furniture over the years, but has most of it stored in his gararge. Seeing our "vintage", "eclectic" style of decorating he offered it to us............of course we jumped at the offer, and really appreciated his generosity) The sideboard originally came from The Hydro Majestic in  Katoomba! With the need for a new narrow but long dining table we found a simple white one at ikea. I then used a mix of old timber and "powder blue" painted chairs for seating...which I love! I really love this room, as it offers not only a lovely place to share a family meal, but also a space to get some creative sewing projects done............

                              The sewing machine is tucked behind the mac when not in use!

Yummy Apple Scones..........

I made these yummy scones on Sunday Morning, they were a delicious weekend treat!

Makes

16

Ingredients

• 3 cups self-raising flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon, plus a little extra for dusting
• 2 Tbsp castor sugar, plus a little extra for dusting
• 80g butter, cubed
• 1 to 1 1/4 cups milk
• 1 grated apple, 1 thinly sliced apple
• jam and whipped cream to serve

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Lightly dust a flat baking tray with plain flour. Sift self-raising flour  and cinnamon into a large bowl.
   
2. Using your fingertips, rub butter into flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Mix in sugar.  Add grated apple, and mix through.
   
3. Make a well in the centre. Add 1 cup of milk. Mix with a flat-bladed knife until mixture forms a soft dough, adding more milk if required. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Knead gently until smooth (don't knead dough too much or scones will be tough).
   
4. Pat dough into a 2cm-thick round. Using a 5cm (diameter) round cutter, cut out 12 rounds. Press dough together and cut out remaining 4 rounds. Place scones onto prepared baking tray, 1cm apart. Place about 3 slices of apple on top of each scone, and sprinkle tops with the extra cinnamon and castor sugar. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden and well risen. Transfer to a wire rack. Serve warm with jam and cream.